Labor Quotes

1710 Labor quotes by 1075 unique authors

To the question how one kind of labor can be measured against another, how the labor of the artisan can be measured against the labor… — Benjamin Cardozo
The fact that I could secure an opera engagement made me realize I had within me the making of an artist, if I would really… — Enrico Caruso
The 2007 Labor campaign was the most presidential in Australian history, with a slogan - Kevin07 - exceeded in its banality only by its success. — Richard Flanagan
A Labor prime minister, Julia Gillard, who does believe in climate change, nevertheless advised her predecessor, Kevin Rudd, to abandon his emissions trading scheme. — Richard Flanagan
It may be that the carbon tax is the final chapter in the strange death of Labor Australia. — Richard Flanagan
In 1995, the Paul Keating Labor government commissioned an inquiry into the forcible removal of Aboriginal children. — Richard Flanagan
Vote Labor, and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative, and you can live in them. — David Frost
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking. — Joshua Reynolds
The most efficient labor-saving device is still money. — Franklin P Jones
We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases. — Thomas Browne
It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body that he can take possession of another human being, so… — Joyce Carol Oates
Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift… — B R Hayden
What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions. — Arnold H. Glasow
He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread. — Daniel Webster
Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy. — Ralph Ransom
Yet in this global economy, no jobs are safe. High-speed Internet connections and low-cost, skilled labor overseas are an explosive combination. — Bob Taft
Labor also wants shorter hours and a say in how work shall be done. — Sidney Hillman
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor. — Menander
This is just what I have thought when I have seen slaves at work - they seem to go through the motions of labor without… — Frederick Law Olmsted
Here we are to remember that in consequence of our opinion that labor is the Father and active principle of wealth, as lands are the… — William Petty
Of your own indefatigable labor from early dawn and of your explicit instructions, that the batteries should reserve their ammunition, until the grand charge should… — John Bigelow
Honest labor bears a lovely face. — Thomas Dekker
We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have… — Samuel Gompers
Certainly if we hope do enhance and extend whatever natural assets we were given, we must expect to make an effort, if not actually great… — Dixie Carter
The unproductive tillage of human cattle takes that which of right belongs to free labor, and which is necessary for the support and happiness of… — David Wilmot

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